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How To Get 100% Positive Feedback On Your eBay Business Account Quickly & Easily - GUARANTEED!

By Martyn Boaden

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Published: 25Nov2009
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Your feedback is your eBay reputation. You must have good feedback otherwise no one will buy from you. Your feedback score is expressed as a percentage. You need it to be 100% positive or as close to that as possible. You also need 10 feedbacks before you can use various facilities on eBay.

In the past, buyers were reluctant to leave negative feedback for poor sellers because the seller could leave negative feedback for the buyer in return. eBay has since changed its rules so now a seller can not leave negative feedback for a buyer.

If you are new to eBay, or if you have set up a new eBay business account, you need to build your positive feedback as quickly as possible.

If you have a high positive feedback score on your personal eBay account when you launch a new separate business eBay account, you can write in your early business account listings, and on your business account "About Me" page: "This is a new eBay business account opened to promote my new line of (name of your niche) products. I have 100% positive feedback on my personal eBay account" with a link to your personal eBay account "About Me" page, which has your feedback listed.

This will let potential buyers know that you are a trustworthy eBayer, even though you have little or no feedback on your new business account.

Alternatively, if you have good feedback on your personal account you could convert your existing personal eBay account to a business eBay account and change its name to your business name. That way your business account will "inherit" your existing feedback score.

When starting from scratch, DON'T try to build up your positive feedback by selling items - if you make mistakes you run the risk of getting negative feedback. A small minority of eBayers are unreasonable and will give negative feedback you don't deserve.

When you have 1000 positive feedbacks, one negative feedback won't affect your score. But you are most likely to make mistakes at the beginning, when you first set up your eBay business. Perhaps your listing is unintentionally misleading and it's not until someone buys from you and complains that you realise the mistake and can correct it.

But the damage will have already been done: your FIRST feedback on your new eBay business account is negative. You now have 100% NEGATIVE feedback! You are going to have to get 19 positive feedbacks, without getting any more negative feedbacks, before you can bring your feedback score up to 95% positive. This could be a disaster as buyers will prefer to use your competitor who has 100% positive feedback.

Instead of running the risk of attracting negative feedback by SELLING items, build your positive feedback by BUYING a load of items on eBay. You need to buy from different sellers as feedback from the same seller will not increase your score. This way you can build your positive feedback score without getting any negatives GUARANTEED (because under the new eBay rules sellers CANNOT give you negative feedback).

Most buyers will just look at your overall feedback score and not realise that it has been earned as a buyer, not as a seller. But even if a prospective buyer does analyse your feedback and realises that you have earned it as a buyer, the fact that it is 100% positive will instil confidence in them that you are a good eBayer.

So that you don't waste money buying things you don't need on eBay just to build your positive feedback, consider buying stuff that you might need in your eBay business such as paper, envelopes, packaging, etc. Search for ebooks on eBay which you can often get for as little as 99 cents, Buy It Now with Free Postage.

If you find and buy 10 cheap ebooks with a Buy It Now option, you could buy them today and may get a positive feedback score of 10 TODAY because some sellers leave positive feedback automatically when payment is received. And all for under $10! Often these ebooks will have re-sell rights so you can re-sell them on eBay yourself if you like.

Look for information products such as books, ebooks, CDs, DVDs relevant to your niche market to buy on eBay to build your feedback score. These will help you in your research of your market and of your competition and may give you ideas about what you can sell. If any of these information products that are relevant to your niche have re-sell rights you can use them as a front-end product or as a free bonus to add value to your own product.

Before buying, check the seller's feedback score. If it's poor, look elsewhere.

When buying cheap items on eBay from a reputable seller with a high feedback score to build your positive feedback, pay IMMEDIATELY so the seller has nothing to complain about. In the unlikely event that the seller doesn't supply what you bought, you've only lost 99 cents or so!

Leave positive feedback for the seller as soon as you receive the item. If they haven't left feedback for you yet, email the seller saying: "Thanks for (name of item and eBay item number). I've left positive feedback for you. Please do the same for me". Include the eBay item number because the seller may be selling many items and is more likely to respond to your request to leave positive feedback if you make it easy for them to locate the correct item to leave feedback on.

As well as buying stuff to build your positive feedback, you can use these buying experiences to your advantage. Analyse your experience as a buyer. Was your buying experience good or bad? What did these sellers do well that you can copy? What did they do badly that you can avoid doing or improve?

Martyn Boaden is the Author of "The Lazy Way To Wealth On eBay" and Founder of The Online Auction Resource Centre where you will find more information and all the resources that you will ever need to set up and run your successful and profitable eBay business. And for a limited time only you can get instant access to his popular eBay Business Box (worth $164 + $17 pm) for FREE by clicking this link: http://www.TheOnlineAuctionResourceCentre.com

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